Guide to the Management Gurus 5th Edition

A comprehensive guide to management thinking through the ideas of some of the leading experts.

Anyone who is interested in management theories will be compelled to read this book. It is a glorious miscellaneous mix of ideologies.

Are you confused by management jargon and nonplussed about why the likes of Charles Handy and Gary Hamel are held in such great awe? Then Carol Kennedy's book could be just the thing for you.

What makes a management guru? My first port of call is Carol Kennedy . . .

Carol Kennedy is an award-winning business and management writer and the author of twelve books. Formerly executive editor of Director magazine, she is now an independent writer and consultant and lives in Wimbledon, southwest London.

The fifth edition of the original, best-selling guide to the ideas of leading management thinkers. 
 
The ten additional full-length entries range from classic gurus such as Henry Gantt and the Gilbreth time-and-motion pioneers to the latest thinkers influencing 21st-century business, including Clayton Christensen, master of innovation theory, and Karen Stephenson with her ground-breaking insights into human networks. 
 
The lives and work of more than 55 gurus are covered in clear and accessible style, along with penetrating analysis of their ideas and influence on management. 
 
Guide to the Management Gurus has sold around the world since its first publication in 1991, and has been translated into more than 15 languages, including Russian, Chinese, Korean and Japanese.

Carol Kennedy

'Carol Kennedy's The Next Big Idea should be on the desk of every consultant.' Accountancy Age'Written with a freshness and sparkle that belie a considerable amount of research, and provides new insights on almost every page.'  Innovation MagazineThe book that outlines the next big idea in business - whether Larry Ellison's business strategy at Oracle or the next hot management theory.  Covers US and European figures, concepts and ideas. Management in the 20th century was perpetually driven by the hunt for the Big Idea - the breakthrough that would bring greater efficiency, performance, productivity and profits to the business organisation and greater motivation to its employees. This book investigates where business will take its next big idea from, whether from new kinds of gurus, research institutions studying the lessons of natural science, practical industrialists working out problems on the factory floor, or the best brains of Silicon Valley.

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